00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-8027390931312570167 Buklod 20240510112701.0 o--- | || || ta 201105t20202020xx m rb a000 0|eng d 9784866581392 (hardback) 4866581395 (hardback) (iLib)UPCEB-00013107810 KEI eng rda KEI GZN OCLCO OCLCF MNN DLC OWU OCLCO ZLM NGU UIU EAU OCL CBY IXA ZCU GYG OCLCO ZYU SHS AMH OCLCO OUN eng jpn PL721.N3 M3813 2020 Matsuoka, Seigow 1944- author. Kacho fugetsu no kagaku. English. Flowers, birds, wind, and moon the phenomenology of nature in Japanese culture Matsuoka Seigow ; translated by David Noble. 880-02 Kacho fugetsu no kagaku Eibunban. First English edition. Tokyo, Japan Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture 2020. 319 pages illustrations 23 cm. Japan library. "This book is a translation of Kachofugetsu no kagaku ... which was originally published by Tank?osha in 1994."--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-318) Mountains -- Paths -- Deities -- Wind -- Birds -- Flowers -- Buddhas -- Time -- Dreams -- Moon. "Japanese culture is deeply rooted in nature--from literature to the visual arts, and from religious practice to daily life. How, when, and why this close association with nature developed is explored in this book by bestselling author Matsuoka Seigow. Using ten key motifs--mountains, paths, deities, wind, birds, flowers, buddhas, time, dreams, and moon--each of which serves as a lens on different aspects of Japanese culture, Matsuoka ranges from history and ethnology to the arts. He also explores the insights that emerge when traditional sensibilities are examined from the perspective of modern science. Japanese concepts of time, interval, and otherness, though arrived at intuitively, overlap with how contemporary fields such as quantum physics and relativity theory grapple with issues of uncertainty, indeterminacy, and ambiguity. Matsuoka proposes that throughout history, the phenomena of nature and the kaleidoscope of seasonal change have functioned as a system of recombinant codes for the expression of the Japanese sensibility. This unique multimedia system for the cultural construction of nature has generated the essential creative motifs of Japanese literature, fine arts, and craft, which in turn have shaped every aspect of Japanese life and thought"--Back cover. Gift of Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture OAU. Translated from the Japanese. Nature and civilization Japan. Signs and symbols Japan. Nature in literature. Nature in art. Phenomenology. Nature and nurture. Japan Civilization. Noble, David translator. Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyo Shinko Zaidan) FO UPCEB CEBU-LAHUG PL721.N3 M3813 2020 Book